![The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Six Volumes]. Edward Gibbon](/pictures/thumb/5669.jpg?v=1572985634)
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783. "A New Edition;" First Octavo Edition; Six Volumes; I: xiv, 456pp; II: xv, 496pp; III: viii, 412pp; IV: viii, 443pp; V: vii, 432pp; VI: viii, 420pp. Frontispiece and two fold-out maps to vols. I and II. Originally published in three quarto volumes, here..... More
![A Short History of Rome [Two Volumes]: The Monarchy and the Republic - From the Foundation of the...](/pictures/thumb/5659.jpg?v=1572456875)
New York: Knickerbocker Press / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918. First U.S. Edition. Octavos. 510 p.; 516 p. Three quarter red leather over red linen with title in gilt at spine and ruled in gilt at front and rear panels. Five raised bands. Top edge gilt. Red linen endpapers. Ferrero..... More
![Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams [with] Hesiod's Works and Days, Musaeus' Hero and...](/pictures/thumb/000566.jpg?v=1574276476)
London: John Russell Smith, 1858. 12mo; xxviii + 256pp. Engraved frontispiece allegorizing Homer and Chapman, plus decorative engraved initials, head-pieces, and tail-pieces throughout text. Leather panels and spine. Raised bands on spine with author and title stamped in gold within crimson and black panels; decorative gilt stamping within remaining spine..... More
![Peoples of the Sea [Ages in Chaos Series]. Immanuel Velikovsky](/pictures/thumb/5264.jpg?v=1564765559)
First Edition. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. Stated First Edition. Signed by Velikovsky on flyleaf to author and columnist William Safire with inscription "A ramming rod to break down the centuries old 'history' of the ancient east. // For slow reading only. Read first the Alexander chapter -- he..... More
Stated Eighth Edition. London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Evans, Pater-noster-Row, 1780. Eighth Edition. Octavo; xvi + 312pp. Original leather binding with near-contemporary superimposed leather reinforcement on spine. Remnants of original blind-stamped border. Leather solid but heavily chafed and rubbed from much use, reinforced..... More
Third Edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893. Third Revised Edition. Octavo; xxxix, 149pp. Red leather with gilt stamped "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" (City School of London) crest on front, with gilt dentelles and spine ornamentation, gauffered edges, and a small black leather title card to spine. Marbled page edges. Boards lightly..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1846. Stated "Three Volumes in Two." Octavo; Vol I 536pp; Vol II 509pp [+ 9pp of publisher prospectuses bound in]. Brown cloth. Gilt stamped emblem on front panel of both volumes; gilt lettering on spines. Both spines battered crown and foot, some peeling..... More